Cranes for steel transfer facilityJune 1st 2006
A turnkey package including new crane supply, removal of existing cranes and upgrade to other equipment has been completed by Street Crane Company for steel distributor, Innovate Round Oak, in the West Midlands. Innovate is a logistics partner of Corus and the £1m investment in new cranes is part of a major £6m refit to its Midlands rail-to-road transfer depot to increase capacity up to 1.25m tonnes of steel per year.
The turnkey Street contract included the removal of three of the existing cranes and installation of five new double girder overhead travelling cranes. Four of the new cranes are rated at 35t safe working load and one at 42t.
On new and retained cranes, six coil grabs have been installed and one magnetic coil lift. New crane rails of 750m have been erected with 712m of high-level safety lines.
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